I teach modern European history, from the sixteenth
to
the nineteenth century. The classes that I teach most frequently are
History
335 (Shaping Modern Europe, 1555-1789), History 337 (Europe in the19th
Century), History 404IC (The Social History of Musical
Life), History 501 (Theory and Methods of History), History 510
(Literatureof Modern European History), and History 590
(Comparative Revolutions). I originated in New England, going to
college at Harvard and grad school at the University of Chicago.
I presently teach in the Fall Semester but am available for students if
needed in the spring.

I have been involved in the department's programs
with the schools virtually since arriving at CSULB in 1968. I
have supervised student teachers, have directed in-service training
programs in the California International Studies Program, and am on the
State Advisory Board of the California Council of the Social Sciences,
the year-round outreach programb ased at UCLA. Related to that was my
work as Associate Editor and then Editor of our journal The History Teacher,
putting together special issues on topics such as World History (1989)
and the National History
Standards (1995, 1997), issues now available on JSTOR. Between 2001 and
2004 I was the Vice-President of the American Historical Association in
charge of its Teaching Division, responsible for the programs by
which the AHA is involved with both school and university teaching.

My research specialty is the social history of music
in
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In doing so I work with
musicologists
as much as historians, finding myself welcomed by scholars in the other
field.
I have participated in conferences in Europe one or twice a year as
part of
a four-year program on the social history of music sponsored by
European Science
Foundation, most often at the Max Planck Historical Institute
inGöttingen.
I am also active attending and helping arrange conferences at the
Center for
17th and 18th Century Studies at UCLA,based at
the William
Andrews Clark Library southwest of downtown Los Angeles. I have
been on the committees
of seven doctoral students who have completed their degrees with
dissertations
on musical subjects, students at such university as Yale, Brown, UC San
Diego, the University of Alberta, and Abo Akademie, the
Swedish-speaking university in Finland. Presently I'm writing a book
called The Great
Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programs,
1770-1914, an attempt to use programs to show how taste changed
from
contemporary to classical and what we call "popular" and "classical"
music became separated from one another.

Some publications:

Music and the Middle Class: The Social Structure
of
Concert Life in London, Paris and Vienna,
1830-48
, Croom Helm, London, 1975; republished with a new introduction
by
Ashgate Press, London, in 2004.

Wagnerism in European Culture and Politics,
co-edited
with David Large, Cornell University Press, 1984.

The Rise of Musical Classics: A Study in Canon,
Ritual
and Ideology, Oxford University Press, 1992.